History Characters / PlatinumPirate

Lord of a World Apart. Legendary Pokémon. Deity. Former enemy turned friend to [[spoiler:Lucas's father Rei]]. Giratina is many things to many people, but they are one thing without question - powerful.

* WakeUpCallBoss: An InUniverse example. Seeing Giratina fight - and ''defeat'' Lucas's entire team, all by itself, made it clear to the Straw Hats what sort of power is waiting in the New World.

* ICantBelieveImSayingThis: He admits in Chapter 23 that, after a lot of research into the Straw Hats, the Marines realized that they haven't [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything technically done anything illegal]] besides saying they're pirates - Luffy's original bounty was given to him by a corrupt Marine who was angry Luffy cost him a payday, and Robin - while guilty of knowing how to read the Poneglyphs - didn't sink any battleships like it was claimed she did. While it's clear he still thinks Luffy is dangerous, he hasn't done anything truly wrong (yet). Of course, he still has trouble believing that he's vouching for ''pirates'' to a ''Marine''.

* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Downplayed - when he's on his own, he has no issues bending, or outright ignoring the law, based on what he feels is right ([[spoiler:like when he let Robin go free when Gardevoir's response to her memories convinced him the crime that got a bounty placed on her head was false]]). But sadly, he's got no way of ([[DeliberateUnderperformance directly]]) helping when Saint Rhode directly orders him and the rest of G-4 to arrest/enslave Lucas and his team.

The former Mr. 2, who [[spoiler:betrayed Baroque Works just before the conclusion of Operation Prometheus]], and who has since started working with the Navy to bring down Baroque Works.

* AchillesHeel: Downplayed - three of Lucas's teammates are weak to Ice attacks, and Vaporeon's body is 97% water (meaning Lucas doesn't want to see what could happen if Aokiji freezes him), but the rest of the team are capable of fighting Aokiji (and at least fighting to a draw, even without Luxray).

* PlausibleDeniability: He does this a lot - but then, in an organization as corrupt as the World Government, doing good often has to be done carefully.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Sengoku wanted to control Lucas to preserve the short-term stability of the World Government. But once Lucas spells out what this new piece on the game board is capable of and willing to do, he realizes that he has a unique opportunity to instead promote Justice in the long term. He then agrees to use Lucas, his team, and his "subordinates" [[spoiler:the Straw Hat Pirates]] to [[spoiler:clean out corruption in the ranks of the Government, the Marines and the Warlords]].
** When Lucas proposes making the best of the situation by having an Emperor-tier combatant with a strong and functional moral compass to clean up corruption and abuse of power, he's all too willing to agree.

* AscendedExtra: He wasn't a minor character in canon, but due to the ripples caused by Lucas's arrival in the Grand Line, he spends more time with the Straw Hats and Sabo after he learns the latter is alive.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: He - well, he didn't ''win'' his fight against Blackbeard, due to Giratina interrupting it, but it still clearly ended in his favor, with Ace and Sabo escaping and Blackbeard getting sent flying into a Marine battleship and subsequently being arrested and sent to Impel Down. He's later seen back on the Moby Dick saying hello to Shanks, and asking Marco to train him to get stronger.

Luffy's idol, and one of the Four Emperors of the New World, Shanks is the newest and youngest member of the latter group, but remains a force to be reckoned with despite being a relative newcomer to the world's highest tiers.

* IgnoredExpert: Subverted - unlike in canon, where Whitebeard put on a JerkassFacade and blew him off, here, Whitebeard admits that Ace was indeed in over his head (while also admitting that he's only saying that because Ace has safely returned and that Blackbeard is now imprisoned).
* VillainTakesAnInterest: A heroic example - Shanks is very curious, to say the least, when he learns that Lucas somehow got Luffy and the Straw Hats to agree to be his subordinates (this was mostly because of Sengoku, ah, making it clear he would likely have to arrest them if Luffy said they weren't, and blasting them all with Conqueror's Haki when Luffy initially didn't get the hint).

* AllForNothing: Crocodile doesn't get mad, but he doesn't take it well when he learns that Pluton is in [[spoiler:Wano Country, Kaido's home base]]:

* WeakBossStrongUnderlings: It's pretty likely that every last Marine at G-4 could beat him in a fistfight - but he's a World Noble, so they're duty-bound to obey him or be charged with treason.

The nearly-universally hated leader of Cipher Pol Nine, and son of the last leader of said group.

* AdaptationalKarma: In canon, all he got for what he did was Robin breaking his back, which he later recovered from, and getting flattened by Franky crushing him with Funkfreed. Here, he was [[spoiler:named by Smoker as being responsible for Enies Lobby's destruction, and it was discovered that he was directly working with Blackbeard]], meaning he's likely been arrested.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Downplayed - he explicitly came up with the plan to [[spoiler:kidnap Robin without Lucas finding out he was behind it]] so that Cipher Pol Nine wouldn't have to fight Lucas - but he also thinks that [[spoiler:Blackbeard can defeat Lucas]], and that Cipher Pol Nine can defeat [[spoiler:a tired Blackbeard]]. He is heavily implied to be dead wrong, in ''both'' cases.
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: The only person who seems to like him is Kumadori - literally everybody else who's ever met him only tolerates him, or flat-out hates him. Smoker considers him a crooked, conniving coward; Sengoku refers to him as a "gremlin"; Kalifa clearly enjoys getting the chance to attack Bentham after he steals Spandam's face; and Blueno says he only tolerates Spandam because it would be too annoying to deal with the hassle and dressing-downs of finding a replacement for him.

* FreudianSlip: InvokedTrope. He outs himself to King Cobra when he refers to Vivi as Miss Wednesday, but that was just one of his subordinates acting as a body double; the real one was still posing as King Cobra himself.
* HeroesFrontierStep: He would have probably gotten off scot-free if he had chosen to continue acting as King Cobra and kept silent about Operation Prometheus, but he deliberately chose to reveal himself anyways in order to save Aluburna.

* TheGhost: They haven't appeared yet in-story, but they're apparently ''very'' frustrated that they haven't gotten to meet Lucas and his team yet.

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: He ''clearly'' wants to kill Blackbeard himself for what he did to Teach, but is prevented from getting revenge at first due to Giratina's interference in their fight, and he's talked down by Sabo from going after him on the logic that, since he's been captured by the Navy, Blackbeard will soon be hauled off to a FateWorseThanDeath in Impel Down.

The ruler of Amazon Lily and one of the Seven Warlords

* OhCrap: She’s surprised when Lucas’s Pokémon are able to tank her conqueror’s haki [[spoiler: and goes pale when told that they’ve fought opponents who put out Pressure on that level constantly and actually have trouble stopping.]]

!!Antagonists
[[folder:Crocodile]]
!!Sir Crocodile
The leader of Baroque Works, and a former Warlord of the Sea who mastered the Sand-Sand Fruit,

!!Antagonists
[[folder:Crocodile]]
!!Sir Crocodile
The leader of Baroque Works, and a former Warlord of the Sea who mastered the Sand-Sand Fruit,

* AllForNothing: Crocodile doesn't get mad, but he doesn't take it well when he learns that Pluton is in [[spoiler:Wano Country, Kaido's home base]]:
-->''Crocodile’s mind blanked at this revelation. His whole goal in seeking out and claiming Pluton was to restart his ambition to be the Pirate King, to seize power that not even an Emperor could oppose, because going up against an Emperor without that kind of power had broken him before. Now, finally, he knew where to find it.\\
Only to learn that he'd [[spoiler:still have to go through an Emperor]] to get it.\\
For the longest time, his eyes held Nico Robin’s, but they never flinched. This was no attempt to trick him: his ambitions truly were locked behind [[spoiler:everything he wanted to use them for]].\\
There was no room left for anger. Crocodile felt exceedingly numb as he walked out without another word.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: When Mr. 3 admits that he failed to kill the Straw Hats and Vivi, Crocodile is livid, and makes it abundantly clear to the wax-man that the only reason he's not killing him is that he needs all the resources at his disposal to pull off even a fraction of his plans.
* FailureGambit: Due to Vivi's survival and Lucas's arrival, Crocodile is forced to discard Operation Utopia and instead forms Operation Prometheus. With everyone aware of his plans with Baroque Works now, there's only one way to make them let their guard down: for him to be defeated and imprisoned. And so he orchestrates matters to keep everyone focusing on bringing him down, while in the background, [[spoiler:Mr. 2 poses as King Cobra in the palace, Mr. 3 poses as a Marine to prepare for a mass jailbreak, the Mr. 4 pair dig an escape tunnel from Alubarna, the Mr. 6 pair takes command of ''Downpour'' as an escape ship, and Miss All Sunday abducts King Cobra and forces him to lead her to the Poneglyph on pain of blowing up the capital. And all the while, the bomb in the clock tower is set to detonate at midnight to bury everyone who could report that he had escaped]].
* ForWantOfANail: [[spoiler:His escape from Alabasta - and later, learning from Robin that Pluton is in Wano - leads to Spandam and Blackbeard both learning said information as well, which makes Iceburg and Franky decide to keep the blueprints for Pluton intact, so that a countermeasure will be ready if the Weapon is ever reactivated]].
* TheKeyIsBehindTheLock: [[spoiler:He wants to use Pluton to defeat the Emperors so he can become the Pirate King - and Pluton is located in Wano, home base of the Beast Pirates that serve Kaido, one of the Emperors]].
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: He notices at the end of Chapter Seven that while it stung his pride to [[spoiler:lose to Luffy and be forced to flee Alabasta]], pride was secondary to results.
* KryptoniteProofSuit: Downplayed. Lucas has Vaporeon use Rain Dance in an attempt to solidify Crocodile's form. Crocodile responds by making an umbrella out of sand to keep the rain off him. However, the rain does prevent Crocodile from simply ending the fight with his TouchOfDeath.
* MagnificentBastard: The reports from Mr. 1 and Mr. 3 are all he needs to accurately conclude that his plans have been compromised beyond salvation, and so he devises Operation Prometheus on the fly to focus on still achieving his primary goal [[spoiler:while also escaping]].
* TouchOfDeath: Crocodile's Sand-Sand Fruit powers allow him to sap the moisure from anything he touches. He can use this to turn the ground into more sand for him to manipulate or to reduce his foes to desiccated husks.

[[folder:Baroque Works]]
The organization founded by Crocodile to help him take over Alabasta and obtain the Ancient Weapon Pluton.

* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:They reappear in Water Seven, after all being hypnotized by Lafitte]].
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Downplayed - [[spoiler:they escape Alabasta with most of their core agents intact, save for Robin and Bentham, who were respectively subjected to YouHaveFailedMe or pulled a ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight. With that said, they're also all caught by the end of the Enies Lobby arc like they were in canon, with no mention being made (yet) of them escaping, since Miss Goldenweek, Miss Valentine, and Mr. 5 were also caught]].

[[folder:Saint Rhode]]
!!Saint Rhode
A World Noble who shows up at G-4 unexpectedly, and singlehandedly torpedoes Lucas's trust in the World Government.

* FaintInShock: After Gion barely saves him from a sextuple Hyper Beam from Lucas's team, he (honestly understandably) passes out.
* ForWantOfANail: He was ''not'' the intended government representative that Lucas was supposed to meet, but he insisted upon it because he wanted to take Gardevoir as his SexSlave. The person he substituted for is ''not'' happy about this, as they likely knew that Rhode's antics would cause trouble.
* OhCrap: When he sees [[spoiler:a patch of shadow on his deck]]. Especially when, two seconds later, [[spoiler:what appears to be Giratina pops out]].
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Inverted - he single-handedly made Lucas and his team aware just ''what'' kind of people run the World Government, utterly wrecking any chance of Lucas ever trusting the Government as a whole again.
* WeakBossStrongUnderlings: It's pretty likely that every last Marine at G-4 could beat him in a fistfight - but he's a World Noble, so they're duty-bound to obey him or be charged with treason.

[[folder:The Blackbeard Pirates]]
The crew of Marshall D. Teach, a former member of the Whitebeard Pirates who fled the crew after killing Thatch, the commander of the Fourth Division, to obtain the Dark-Dark Fruit.

* AdmiringTheAbomination: Blackbeard is left in awe of [[spoiler:Giratina]], but then tries to absorb it after regaining his composure.
* UnluckilyLucky: Blackbeard was captured by the Marines thanks to [[spoiler:Giratina]] being annoyed by his fight with Ace [[spoiler:and Sabo]], and is currently on his way to or in the HellholePrison of Impel Down. Yet unlike canon, he had a noteworthy chance of losing said fight, so [[spoiler:Giratina]] may have inadvertently saved his life. And according to Lafitte, he had a "Plan C" in case he was sent to Impel Down, and his plans always involved going there so he could use Level Six as a recruiting ground.

[[folder:Spandam]]
!!Spandam
The nearly-universally hated leader of Cipher Pol Nine, and son of the last leader of said group.

* AdaptationalKarma: In canon, all he got for what he did was Robin breaking his back, which he later recovered from, and getting flattened by Franky crushing him with Funkfreed. Here, he was [[spoiler:named by Smoker as being responsible for Enies Lobby's destruction, and it was discovered that he was directly working with Blackbeard]], meaning he's likely been arrested.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Downplayed - he explicitly came up with the plan to [[spoiler:kidnap Robin without Lucas finding out he was behind it]] so that Cipher Pol Nine wouldn't have to fight Lucas - but he also thinks that [[spoiler:Blackbeard can defeat Lucas]], and that Cipher Pol Nine can defeat [[spoiler:a tired Blackbeard]]. He is heavily implied to be dead wrong, in ''both'' cases.
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: The only person who seems to like him is Kumadori - literally everybody else who's ever met him only tolerates him, or flat-out hates him. Smoker considers him a crooked, conniving coward; Sengoku refers to him as a "gremlin"; Kalifa clearly enjoys getting the chance to attack Bentham after he steals Spandam's face; and Blueno says he only tolerates Spandam because it would be too annoying to deal with the hassle and dressing-downs of finding a replacement for him.

[[folder:Cipher Pol Nine]]
The black ops arm of the World Government, who have had four of their top agents stationed in Water Seven for the last five years in an attempt to find the blueprints for Pluton.

* ManOfKryptonite: Vaporeon is for all intents and purposes a water-type Logia user, without the weakness to water that Devil Fruit users have, makes Vaporeon this by default to Devil Fruit users.

* BarrierWarrior: Among Gardevoir's many psychc powers is her ability to produce barriers to shut out incoming attacks. They're strong enough to take hits from Vice Admirals and even [[spoiler:Admiral Aokiji]] without breaking, though continual damage will eventually force Gardevoir to dodge.

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* TheKidWithTheRemoteControl: Given that he isn't superhuman like the pirates and Marines, Lucas's role in the early chapters consists of barking orders and organizing his Pokémon for maximum effect. But after escaping G-4, Lucas realizes that they're going up against the world and he's the weak link in any engagement. At this, his team promptly begins training him to be stronger, and he also learns some Fishman Karate from, Koala so he can defend himself, though he's still far too inexperienced to use it against a serious opponent.

* ForWantOfANail: [[spoiler:He wonders, years later, if it would have changed anything if he had taken a detour to arrest Mr. 1 and the 4-Christmas pair, and realized they had pre-planned their escape before fighting the Straw Hats]].

* AdaptationalBadass: She starts training more than she did in canon, at first so that she can match Zoro - and later, so she won't have to focus on [[ToBeLawfulOrGood how she had to fight Lucas to follow orders]].

* ScissorsCutsRock: Despite Ice being (in Pokémon terms) weak to Fire, he's able to knock out Houndoom all by himself, and was holding his own against Gardevoir and Lucario.

* ShockAndAwe: As an electric-type it's a given, which comes in handy as being a Champion level electric-type they can output enough volts to power [[spoiler:the flying ship Franky will build based on the Straw Hats' memories of Enel's Ark Maxim.]]

* TheChainsOfCommanding: Due to the responsibilities of being Champion (i.e. policing crime, needing to be available to battle challengers), Lucas will have to give up adventuring and exploring almost entirely in a few years. The plot starts when the Unown at Solaceon Ruins rifle through his memories and realize that he still wishes to explore and grow with his Pokémon, leading them to drop him in an entirely new world where he'd be free of his duties, something he doesn't realize until his ship is completed.

** Lucas is from a world entirely separate from the Grand Line where Pokémon are everywhere, berries can grow in a few days, and people typically don't have superpowers. He has to be filled in on a lot of things and is sometimes dumbstruck by the things he encounters, like how the sun never sets on Enies Lobby against his understanding of physics and astronomy.

* SeenItAll: Subverted. As Sinnoh Champion, Lucas has seen a lot of his journey and isn't fazed in the slightest at the prospect of challenging crime bosses like Crocodile or the most powerful members of the Marines. Others call him crazy for his SpiritedCompetitor tendencies and he's typically able to keep a cool head under pressure. But there's still plenty on the Grand Line that can throw him off, such as the MindScrew of Enies Lobby's eternal daylight.